Posted on 07/20/2014 11:14:19 PM PDT by wetphoenix
The Ukraine mess is about organized crime, mafia families, and corrupt usage of politics to further a gangster agenda. If the EU trade deal back in November/December had involved them...this would have gone through, and no civil war. The gangster groups of Russia and Ukraine saw some transparency deal coming in....wiping out their current agenda and pay-offs.
Today? There’s no business deals and the only cash is what they siphon off from Moscow’s natural gas and oil profits.
Who could possibly dislike such wonderful people as the Russians?
I mean, besides everybody.
Gee I wonder how the Putinistas deal with this
Lots of interesting comments in the article.
I believe the Guardian and it’s audience was always pro-Russia during the cold War.
“Catastroika has not only been a disaster for Russia”
A decade on, enthusiasm for the Soviet collapse looks misplaced
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/16/russia.comment
The TV feels the same way about her. It doesn't like the way she just sits there and stares.
Yeh — they are all horrified and frightened that the West will find out that Russia has not changed and never will.
Good. I haven't trusted the television here in the US since I began paying taxes.
This is The Guardian. The question is who would believe The Guardian?
They did tell us via Snowden we were being spied on by the NSA. Apparently that was true. They are a very left wing news source.
Twenty-three years since the fall of the USSR and the birth of more-or-less independent access to news sources, and the Russians still believe everything happens due to conspiracies. And America is still `glavnii vrag’ (the main enemy).
In high school we were taught that Russian culture missed out on the Renaissance & the Enlightenment & there is still something medieval about it.
Russians may be Caucasians, but they’re not Europeans.
Give them Obamacare? Sic the IRS on them? Supply the Russian Mafia with guns? Award bonuses to their bureaucrats for murdering their veterans? Give shoulder-fired ground to air missiles to their Islamic terrorist groups? Prosecute their news reporters and threaten them with jail? Send them hundreds of thousands of illiterate refugees from the third world?
Sure about that?
Yet compared to the American old news media, they would be moderate.
The Guardian by European standards is deemed “liberal”. American, moderate.
Even both the Washington Post and NYT is even worse.
> “Who benefits from portraying Russia as the monster? The Americans do,” he says. “They want to go to war with the whole world.”
IOW, another agitprop piece from The Guardian. Who benefits from carrying water for the terrorist mastermind and mass-murderer Vlad Putin? Vlad Putin and Russia.
The Guardian is well known for being of the left.
“In 1995, KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky identified prominent Guardian editor Richard Gott as one of his agents. While Gott denied that he received cash, he confessed taking benefits from the KGB on a visit to the Soviet Union.
Gordievsky commented on the newspaper: “The KGB loved The Guardian. It was deemed highly susceptible to penetration”.”
I am not surprised.
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